BOXING.
JIEHEGAX DEFEATS WELLS. A DESPERATE FIGHT. Btf Toleeraph—Press Association-Copyright London, September 18. Hughio'iMfhegAn, light-weight cliampion boxer of Australia, beat Jlatt Wells, l'Jnglaud's premier ligllt-woight, in the fourteenth round on a foul. The. fight was a desperate one, marked throughout by almost continual clinchiiiß. Wells lind the best of the first ri«ht rounds, but Mehcgan's hhrd, fiwco body puncheFi hud Uioir elVeet. From (he jiinth round Me.hegan tfdnt vapidly ahead. Wells ■was badly 6\\t about the face, and bled profusely! Although he made a greftt rally In' thb Ihirteenth ro\uid he could not "keep it up. ■ ilche*air reeovei'ed tfell t and was able to take punishment, Wells was Very Weak. Jn the fom'teciith round he Was dUquali' llC'd i'oV Flriklfix • Meließftu t'.rico after the goiitf lifid smili'dcd. Jle shnwrd littk* rral loxitiK. and the opinion IB that MeheSah would liavo won iiptirt from tha dipqtinlitication.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 2
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145BOXING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 2
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